BuzzerBeater Forums

Well, games are over. We lost the semifinals against South Africa. We beated them twice this season, but both of the time we used more effort than them, and the result of the last match was giving a clear indication, already.
We played without our best guard, in a match that we needed to play with an outside offense; and with the same effort, with a lower TS. I was not expecting a win, unfortunately, and my prediction was correct. We discussed a lot in the staff team, but it was clear that with an equal effort SA is still a little better than us.

But let's see the many positive aspect of this season: we reached more or less the same level of Nigeria and South Africa, we are now ranked 43 in the world (when I started to work with Ghana it was 93); we have a backbone for the next season already, and even if we lack punch in all the sectors, I expect good results in the next tournament - obviously we can't compete in the International Tournament, but some nice results will probably come.

6 Ghanian teams are now steadily cooperative with the U21, and this is a great improvement. I hope that the Ghanian level can increase in the National Leagues as well, soon.

I wish to thank my staff first, mainly Zecchin, SteveKarenn, M.Saracen; their work was very important to keep the DB with the player's skills always updated. Obviously, without the big effort of the managers training our young talents we wouldn't have any result; so, a big thanks goes to Cashwinner, Heat274, Tony Daniel, Kima Tores, Jolie87 and Farah Anton in Ghana and Franco Castillo and Master of BB from abroad.

I really wish to see more activity on the forum from the Ghanian coaches, but... well, it's just a desire :-)

thank you..
however, the compliments for you are obligatory, you do a very great job with this young country...
we have another season for do better, and we will try it!!

I think I forgot to name the players who will end their cycle in the U21 this season, and that helped a lot:
Thiawlo Diop - SF
Malle Dieng - G
Momar Diawara - C
Dialamba Fassa - SF/PF
Lamine Diallo - G

Great job anyway.

Now, you have to take the home field again!

Great job this season!

Good luck in the consolation tournament and good luck trying to get home field again.

Thanks to all! It will not be easy.... but we'll tray, as always! ;-)

Nice job Cobra :D

I had hopes we reach the finals.. that sure would have been great especially we had home court advantage..

but you did all you can do.. i was a close follower of every single game since the start to the end.. and i think you did all you can.. nice job..

hope we can reach finals or even get the championship next african cup..

for next season, i know it will be difficult to play NTs from outside africa as usual.. but we can get some few wins if luck was on our side in the draw.. goodluck

i think it will be nearly impossible to get home court again.. but good luck with that too..

I have only one request from you that i posted here many times and you only ignored it, hehe.. please can you count all pop ups of U21 players and update it weekly every friday just like jamomoto is doing? i think it is very easy to be done and it helps encourage managers alot to train young players and also people who are very interested like myself can have a little race between them on who will be best trainer and which player was best trained every season :D

see ya next season (1-2 days from now, hehe) ;-)

hope we can reach finals or even get the championship next african cup..

You will, one day. You are doing a great job in Ghana. It is not much different than the one we did in South Africa... and today you can see where it brings.

Just keep on doing.

Thanks Cash, I don't have anything to blame me at, I think. We were unlucky with El Hady Mendy not being trained anymore first, then some low game shape - but we made up, no problem, and most of all the injury of our best guard in the semifinals. I'm not sure if with him on the court things would have gone differently, but for sure we would have had a better impact than our reserves.

As you said, next season will be hard. We have a worse team than 2 seasons ago, we don't have nothing comparable to Yaya Gomis, so the draw will be the key. Anyway, we'll see what the fate will bring :-)

About the popup, I'm not going to report anything in public, to respect the privacy of the other managers. Also, probably jamomoto is writing to you directly, I would like to avoid this but to write in the forum what is possible. Surely, I can give you generic news about the improvements of our players, but I don't want to give to anyone any kind of advantage in the national tournament ;-)

Oh, by the way: for those who didn't notice, South Africa won the African tournament! They beated Egypt by 10 more or less in a very nice match. Congratulations to them!

Oh, by the way: for those who didn't notice, South Africa won the African tournament! They beated Egypt by 10 more or less in a very nice match. Congratulations to them!

I was waiting for that